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Eirini Zormpa

Doctoral researcher in psychological and language sciences with strong quantitative analysis skills and demonstrable experience running and managing research projects. Driven and reliable with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Education

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

PhD in Social Sciences

Nijmegen, NL

2016–2020

  • Planned and managed own PhD project and co-supervised intern project.
  • Designed and ran multi-phase, in-lab and online experiments.
  • Analysed complex datasets using (logistic) mixed effects models in R.

University of Reading

MSc in Language Sciences (Awarded distinction)

Reading, UK

2014–2015

  • Completed two independent and one collaborative research project on bilingualism.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

BA in English Language and Literature (1st Class grade)

Thessaloniki, GR

2009–2013

  • Undertook Erasmus exchange at Duisburg-Essen University.
  • Conducted research project on the narratives of bilingual children.

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

Reading University

Reading, UK

2016

  • Tested participants using EEG for a study on prospective memory.
  • Transcribed narratives of Greek-English bilingual children.

Research Assistant

Reading University

Reading, UK

2015

  • Tested participants using behavioural and eye-tracking methods for a study on ambiguity resolution.
  • Pre-processed data and performed preliminary data analysis using Excel.

Peer-reviewed Publications

Slow naming of pictures facilitates memory for their names

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26. doi:10.3758/s13423-019-01620-x

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2019

Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm

The production effect and the generation effect improve memory in picture naming

Memory 27. doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1510966

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2019

Eirini Zormpa, Laurel E. Brehm, Renske S. Hoedemaker, & Antje S. Meyer

Awards & Honours

  • Donders Institute
  • Donders Posters Theme 1 winner (2017)
  • University of Reading
  • Achieving Excellence Bursary Award (2014)

Supervision

  • Wenwen Jin
  • Intern at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Reviewer

  • Memory & Cognition
  • Journal of Open Source Software
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Blog Posts

Volunteering

  • Kletskoppen Child Language Festival (2018)
  • Drongo Language Festival (2017)
  • Erasmus Student Network (ESN) - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2012-2014)

Selected Posters and Presentations

Communicative intentions influence memory for conversations

Poster presented at the 26th AMLaP conference (online).

Potsdam, DE

Sep 2020

Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm

Naming pictures slowly facilitates memory for their names

Poster presented at the 21st ESCoP meeting.

Tenerife, ES

Sep 2019

Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm

Selected Event Organising Experience

Open Science Community Nijmegen

Co-founder and event organiser of community advocating for open science in Nijmegen. Content creator for the website and newsletter.

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2018–2020

R-Ladies Nijmegen chapter

Co-founder and event organiser of local R-Ladies chapter with 300+ members, promoting gender diversity in the R community. I was involved in organising and advertising our workshops on, e.g., data visualisation and literate programming.

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2018–2020

Pint of Science NL

Organiser for 3-day science communication event bringing a range of scientific topics like astrophysics and neuroscience into Nijmegen pubs.

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2018–2020

Open Access Ambassador Conference

Organiser for 2-day international conference in Berlin, bringing together stakeholders from academia, the public sector, and industry.

N/A

Dec 2019

Selected Teaching Experience

Reproducible analyses in R

Workshop presented at MPI Psycholinguistics

Nijmegen, NL

Jun 2020

Developed a workshop for psycholinguists showing how to use R projects, GitHub, and Binder for reproducible analytical environments.

Key Practices for the Language Scientist

IMPRS Language Sciences

Nijmegen, NL

2020

Co-instructor with Julia Egger on a 6-week course teaching how to conduct transparent, robust, and GDPR-compliant research.